Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rick Wilson, President of Miva Merchant (Part 1)

Miva caters to 20,000 e-commerce merchants and Rick Wilson discusses the trends he sees in their customer base, as well as the industry in general. Sramana Mitra: Welcome to the Thought Leaders in E-Commerce Series. Tell us a bit about yourself as well as Miva Merchant. Tell us what you do and how did you

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Bootstrapping a Credit Card Processing Business: Payscape CEO Adam Bloomston (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Have you done other verticalized product acquisitions or solutions? Adam Bloomston: We have. We purchased an electronic invoicing company called Billion, probably in 2011. It is an electronic invoicing program on a web-based platform. If you are in any kind of service business or any kind of business, you  send them an invoice

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Jacob Cooke, CEO of Web Presence in China (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What happens if you’re a new merchant? Jacob Cooke: If you’re a new merchant, you’re in the sandbox for 30 days. That can be tough. You probably want to focus on pricing for the first 30 days. You also might want to up the guarantee level. Basically, every sector is different. One of

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: However, right now it’s very inadequate. We only actually do content marketing. Our strategy, in terms of marketing, does not consist of advertising. However, the infrastructure around that content marketing in terms of analytics and being able to tie those pieces together is absolutely and terribly difficult. Larry Augustin: That’s an interesting comment

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Bootstrapping a Credit Card Processing Business: Payscape CEO Adam Bloomston (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to get zero to one million in revenue and how many people were involved in the company at that point? Adam Bloomston: It took us about two to three years. Maybe four. Sramana Mitra: Three years? Just around the 2007-2008 timeframe, you hit that milestone? Adam Bloomston:

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Jacob Cooke, CEO of Web Presence in China (Part 4)

Jacob Cooke: Some of the software that we’ve developed plugs into all of the stores, so we can actually take products, put them in warehouses, and fulfill for JD.com, Yihaodian, or Tmall out of one logistics center. Once you’ve got your legal and licensing details worked out, they really push you towards getting into the platform.

Catching Up On Readings: Assimov on Creativity

MIT Technology Review has recently published a 1959 article by sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov on how people get ideas. The article, relevant even today, says idea formulation requires isolation, because creativity is best nurtured alone and that group sizes to discuss ideas should be limited to five. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM (Part 6)

Larry Augustin: What we find is that the open platform makes that very easy for anyone coming in. And that community buids very early integrations. Twitter is a great example. We had a Twitter integration available for our product long before most of us here even knew what Twitter was. It’s now part of the

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